2nd Wave - where are all the deaths then?

[Old Greg]

No, I think the whole thing has been damaging mentally to a lot of people. Old folks isolated from their grandchildren, students confined to their halls with the prospect of not being able to return to their homes at Christmas. It's a little bit more than inconvenient.

Dying of Covid is more than inconvenient.

[Zigenare]

Dying of Covid is more than inconvenient.

Dying "of" or dying "with"?

#Justasking

[WTFH]

No, I think the whole thing has been damaging mentally to a lot of people. Old folks isolated from their grandchildren, students confined to their halls with the prospect of not being able to return to their homes at Christmas. It's a little bit more than inconvenient.

Which one of those groups best reflects your personal position?

[Whorty]

Well, following that lohic we should be minimising contact with other people full stop

as a sociable person, I find intolerable.

Yeah, with you there 100%

Same with driving my car .... I get the logic of keeping below 30 in built up areas, specifically near schools, but I like to drive my car as fast as possible at all times so I find it intolerable that I should have to drive within speed limit rules just to save the lives of others.

[Whorty]

No, I think the whole thing has been damaging mentally to a lot of people. Old folks isolated from their grandchildren, students confined to their halls with the prospect of not being able to return to their homes at Christmas. It's a little bit more than inconvenient.

So what are you ... and old person or a student in halls?

[Rearden Metal]

Yeah, with you there 100%

Same with driving my car .... I get the logic of keeping below 30 in built up areas, specifically near schools, but I like to drive my car as fast as possible at all times so I find it intolerable that I should have to drive within speed limit rules just to save the lives of others.

Hardly comparable scenarios.

Driving like a lunatic through a built up area is highly likely to injure or kill someone.

Going on holiday, meeting up with people in a pub, whatever, is highly unlikely to kill anyone, given the lethality of this virus. Particularly if the govt had followed the advice of Prof Gupta and put in place a framework to aggressively shield the vulnerable.

[Zigenare]

Hardly comparable scenarios.

Driving like a lunatic through a built up area is highly likely to injure or kill someone.

Going on holiday, meeting up with people in a pub, whatever, is highly unlikely to kill anyone, given the lethality of this virus. Particularly if the govt had followed the advice of Prof Gupta and put in place a framework to aggressively shield the vulnerable.

No it isn't. Losing control and ploughing into a bus load of Nuns is.

[Rearden Metal]

Which one of those groups best reflects your personal position?

Neither.

My parents haven't seem my son since March. Partly because of restrictions, partly because they've been scared witless by the media.

[Rearden Metal]

No it isn't. Losing control and ploughing into a bus load of Nuns is.

You'll probably do more damage while they're waitin at the bus stop :

[Old Greg]

Neither.

My parents haven't seem my son since March. Partly because of restrictions, partly because they've been scared witless by the media.

"Media" is a very lazy way of describing expert public health advice. I guess it makes you feel better to cast it that way.